Question 1
Which of the following best describes William of Ockham's significance?
a. By challenging Aquinas' scholasticism, Ockham revived ancient mysticism.
b. By separating reason and faith, Ockham's philosophy encouraged a more empirical examination of the natural world.
c. As the basis of scholasticism was being undermined, Ockham reunited philosophy and reason in a new and original synthesis.
d. Ockham's challenges to church authority and his emphasis on the Bible encouraged new heresies.
e. Ockham was one of the leading scientists of the Late Middle Ages who successfully disproved Aristotle's theory of motion.
Question 2
Freud viewed unrestrained sexuality as a problem because it
a. rejected Christian morality and marriage.
b. led to abuse of women.
c. sapped a society's warrior virtues.
d. sapped psychic energy needed for all sorts of work that held society together and enriched it.
e. created excessive pleasure for the individual.